Washington, D.C. - 5/22/2025… Today, Congressman Mike Lawler released the following statement after securing a deal and voting for legislation that will quadruple the state and local tax deduction up to $40,000 for the next ten years. This will provide immediate relief to millions of New Yorkers who have suffered under the yoke of Governor Kathy Hochul’s runaway spending.
“The taxpayers… Read more »
Washington, D.C. - 5/22/2025… Today, Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17), Chairman of the House Foreign Affairs Committee’s Middle East and North Africa Subcommittee, reacts to the heartbreaking antisemitic attack last night. This is part of a trend of rising antisemitic violence around the country in the wake of the October 7th attack in Israel and the failures of college administrators,… Read more »
WASHINGTON - Rep. Mike Lawler (R-NY) is celebrating an 11th-hour deal for an increase in state and local tax (SALT) deductions as part of President Trump's spending bill as the measure still faces opposition from fiscal hawks for final passage in the House.
"For the middle class, this is a real win, especially in a state like New York," Lawler told The Post in an exclusive interview… Read more »
In Washington, the answer to every problem is often to spend more of your hard-earned dollars. But when it comes to one of the most significant issues facing our health care system, we have a commonsense solution that does not cost taxpayers a dime.
Right now, we are heading toward a massive shortfall of physicians over the next decade. According to a March 2024 report from the… Read more »
Washington, D.C. - 5/20/2025… Today, Reps. Mike Lawler (NY-17), Nick LaLota (NY-01), Andrew Garbarino (NY-02), Tom Kean Jr. (NJ-07), and Young Kim (CA-40) released the following joint statement:
“We share President Trump's call for unity within the House Republican Conference. A fair SALT deduction is a matter of fundamental fairness for the hardworking families we represent,… Read more »
New York Republican Reps. Mike Lawler, Elise Stefanik, Andrew Garbarino, and Nick LaLota back President Trump and his One Big Beautiful Bill on taxes and spending, but they put their home state above party loyalty and are absolutely right to insist that the unfair and punishing $10,000 cap on deductions of state and local taxes (called SALT) in place for the past few years… Read more »
The boiling internal GOP debate that’s holding up President Donald Trump’s self-declared “big, beautiful” bill isn’t over the deductibility of state and local taxes — it’s about the class and geographic divide splintering today’s Republican Party.
And more directly, it’s about two midterm elections: Trump’s first, in 2018, when a series of Republicans from affluent districts retired or… Read more »
Your editorial “The Corleone Option for SALT Republicans” (May 15) suggests my efforts to achieve a higher deduction for state and local taxes would amount to a giveaway to the wealthy. In reality, the current $10,000 cap unfairly penalizes middle-class families—cops, firefighters, teachers, nurses, blue-collar tradespeople—in high-tax states like New York.
The cap was an arbitrary… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – 5/15/25… Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17) and Congressman Josh Gottheimer (NJ-05) reintroduced the Helping Angels Lead Our Startups (HALOS) Act, bipartisan legislation to help early-stage companies connect with investors by clarifying federal securities laws and removing unnecessary regulatory hurdles that hinder startup growth.
This bill defines an angel investor for… Read more »
Washington, D.C. – 5/15/25… Last week, Congressman Mike Lawler (NY-17) joined Congressman Rich McCormick (GA-07) and 13 of their colleagues in sending a letter to Secretary Rubio conveying their grave concerns over the deteriorating security situation in Haiti as missionaries, humanitarian aid workers, and countless innocent civilians face deadly threats from criminal gangs that now… Read more »
